"That's the situation. We hope your company can help us rescue them."
Joseph went on and on, and Xia Yu finally understood what he meant.
The Americans hired military contractors to rescue their pilots, and they had no right to stop them. However, as soon as the military contractors took action, even if the hostages were not held together, they went in and killed indiscriminately, but only rescued the Americans. This would inevitably affect the Americans who remained.
What if those people take their anger out on them?
Nobody can say for sure, and nobody dares to gamble, so if we're going to help, we should help together. They're planning to hitch a ride with the locals and organize a group-buying aid effort.
Joseph had already contacted the Afica theater command and received a promise that a special rescue budget would be approved, which is why he came to find Xia Yu.
He also hoped the other party could make the money. Five Green Shells had been confirmed dead today, and if the whole group was wiped out, it would really cause a sensation.
"Major Joseph, I cannot give you a definite answer. I can only guarantee that my men and I will do everything in our power to help your side rescue your soldiers."
Xia Yu said in a very official tone.
Saving two people is the same as saving five, six, seven, or eight. Who wouldn't like a business that pays twice? You just need to have the capability first.
If it weren't for this unexpected situation, the US military would have had to conduct multiple assessments of the company before deciding whether to hire Concentrated Firepower Defense. However, they are the clients of the US military, which to some extent is a form of endorsement of their strength.
The other side is quite skilled, as can be seen from their very different-looking doe.
Then there are Xia Yu's employees, each one of them looks very elite, and their weapons and equipment are even more luxurious than those of their Green Shell.
Not to mention a wide variety of weapons, they were all fully equipped with rifles, with four or five people carrying two rifles on their backs.
Their forward base, let alone the AT-4, didn't even have the small-caliber M72law rocket launcher (66mm) that they'd been using for over 60 years.
Compared to the patrol and arrest setup, it's just a matter of adding two Lao Gan Ma cannons and replacing the small team's equipment with Hummers.
Facing the attackers' mortar fire, even this seems quite risky.
Concentrated fire defense is different; the intensity of their individual firepower must keep up with the heavy vehicles. Fortunately, rocket launchers don't take up any official positions, and a few hundred dollars can take down an enemy vehicle—that's a great deal, isn't it?
"Found him, we found Mike."
There was a commotion in the distance, and it sounded like there were still some living green shells.
There was one lucky guy who was shot in the arm from the start, so he gave all his rifle magazines to his comrades and only took a pistol for himself.
With five or six pounds less weight, he naturally ran faster. His injuries were treated promptly, and since he didn't participate in the counterattack, he didn't expend much energy. Therefore, it's not hard to understand why he became the lucky one.
The most ingenious part was that he even managed to kill someone with his pistol, but the opponent's AK hit his bulletproof vest at close range.
Although the 7.62x39mm bullet failed to penetrate the defenses, it destroyed the guy's personal radio.
That's why it took two hours to find him.
“It was a massacre, a massacre. We fought with all our might, but we still couldn’t break through. The enemy hit the captain, shot down Keynes, and then dragged them onto a pickup truck and took them away.”
Mike had thrown away his rifle, but he still had the scope with him, so he was the last to see this scene.
“Listen, buddy, if you want to save your comrades, you’d better tell me who they are.”
Xia Yu asked the other party for details.
The situation became complicated because the attackers took all their dead comrades with them.
“There were black people and white people. Although they were all masked, the back of the hand of the person I killed was black. When David and I passed by a motorcyclist who had been killed, he took off the man’s mask, and judging from the outline, he should have been a North Filipino.”
Mike said with certainty.
David was a tough guy; he stayed behind to pick up the enemy's modified RPG, helping his comrades delay the enemy for several minutes.
Without him, Mike would never have escaped. As a result, he was shot through his bulletproof vest by a heavy machine gun and became the last body found by government soldiers.
Black people and white people are both accepted.
That's right, the other side is the Nasser independence movement base faction led by Belmukhtar, and they have indeed come to Niger.
They definitely planned this whole thing beforehand. They killed two birds with one stone: destroying the German fighter jets and, incidentally, avenging the annihilation of the Ace faction.
Xia Yu instantly connected all the clues. There is discrimination in jihad, just like most armed factions. The members of extremist organizations are all of the same skin color.
The only exception was someone like Belmukhtar, whom he would train as long as he was willing to give his life for Pearl.
This is also why he, as an outsider, was able to amass an army of nearly 700 men.
No, that's the number they had when they were still in Marri. Once they arrived in Niger, there would probably be close to 800 people.
According to Mike, the other side deployed fewer than 100 people this time.
What a cunning fox! He only deployed the organization's elite forces, yet managed to make Old Mei misjudge the size of the attackers, making it impossible for her to contact them.
Taking hostages is understandable; besides making both countries lose face, it could also be used as a bargaining chip if important figures from al-Qaeda were captured later.
Okay, the hostages are safe for now. The important thing now is to find the other party.
The meticulous Xia Yu immediately went to the side, took out a satellite phone, and called Hans.
The technical staff had just finished work and driven back to the camp when Hans received a call from his boss, who was hundreds of kilometers away.
"boss"
“Listen, meerkat, we need you here. Immediately have the shrew drive the antelope and bring you, the honey badger, and Dundu to Niger.”
"Yes, we'll set off now."
Hans became excited when he heard there was work to be done.
Combat readiness patrol
He's been doing this in Mary for several years now.
Not only does it require a high level of concentration, but without the stimulation of setbacks, it's not interesting at all, except for earning Xia Yu a basic income.
The tanks and infantry fighting vehicles were left with Mari, and now they wanted him, the tank commander, to go there. Hans knew without a doubt that they wanted him to be a helicopter gunner.
As expected, Xia Yu's experience as an ace attack helicopter pilot meant that when attacking targets without anti-aircraft fire, he could easily double as a gunner.
But like last time when he fought Ace, his attention was diverted.
If the enemy is using infrared-guided missiles, it doesn't matter if they are dispersed; Xia Yu is confident that he can jam them with one or two missiles.
As a result, the Ace faction, lacking any sense of martial ethics, ambushed him with laser-guided starlight.
There's no other way; Xia Yu will definitely have to unlock the "genetic lock" and use a two-person crew.
During the operation, have Hans keep a close watch on the enemy. Any targets that appear to be anti-aircraft missile launchers, as well as any RPG shooters, will be the first priority targets.
Knowing what you're going to face and being prepared makes the fight much safer once it starts.
Xia Yu was hit by bullets several times while piloting his attack helicopter, and the worst cases were almost all due to surprise attacks.
It wasn't that he was careless; even tigers have their moments of weakness. Luckily, we're cheaters, so what if we get hit?
On the contrary, the other party should be careful that Xia Yu doesn't turn around and retaliate.
"Quick, the boss is calling us! Can the little antelope fly now?"
Rushing into Lyman and Kohler's barracks, Hans dragged the company's third helicopter pilot right out of bed.
"The fuel tank is full, but the plane isn't loaded with missiles!"
Lyman answered without much thought.
"It's okay if I'm not hanging up; I'm just a means of transportation. The boss needs me, along with the honey badger and Dundu. By the way, what do we need Dundu for?"
Hans discovered a problem.
Even without a vehicle, Domi is a qualified door gunner; however, when deployed in a two-plane formation, he would be assigned to the glider crew.
The Mi-24V has multiple hatches and few machine guns, but these are very important for the Super Frelon.
Dundu knew that this was Xia Yu's newly adopted "adopted son," who, like Ke Long, had been trained to take on important responsibilities, but this kid probably couldn't even press an AK now!
That's still better than him. Hans can control the AK but can't hit the target, so he just uses a submachine gun and shotgun to exchange blows within a hundred meters.
For targets at greater distances, either a coaxial machine gun or a 20mm caliber gun is needed. Gatling guns have multiple barrels, so they can make do, but nothing else will do.
I don't know what use Dundu is, which is why Hans is the employee and Xia Yu is the boss.
If you can't know people and assign them to suitable positions, your company's size will remain limited, and it will be difficult to grow and become stronger in fierce competition.
For Xia Yu, however, it was just basic stuff. From the day he saw Zhu Zi, he knew that the young man was a social tyrant.
Once the business grows bigger, I'll be an excellent helper in selling excavators. I can handle sales, training, and after-sales service all by myself.
So Xia Yu directly took him in as his godson, took him to work, and taught him how to operate an excavator and how to solve common problems.
As a result, Kong Lujia suddenly became disorganized and switched to PMC.
Fortunately, Xia Yu had a system that allowed him to gradually collect all the tanks in the museum, ensuring that the pillar's advantage was not wasted.
It's the same with Dundu now; this kid is quick to learn and has a real talent for languages.
This is where his talent will come in handy.
Dundu, who was taking online classes in his room, followed Domi, bewildered, to the helicopter hangar.
"Oh right, my gun, I forgot to bring my gun."
After checking and getting on the antelope, Dundu realized that he was only wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, and hadn't taken his gun yet.
Xia Yu gave him his AK-105, and he would practice shooting with Domi regularly.
"If you didn't take it, that's fine. I'll protect you."
Domi showed a lot of leadership, or rather, if Tun Du really had to take up arms, the people in the defense force would have been almost all dead.
"Splash splash"
The propellers began to spin, and the little antelope, which hadn't been driven much since arriving in Oga, finally took off and flew towards Niger.
While it is somewhat vulnerable to anti-aircraft missiles during combat, it does not hinder inter-combat commuting; the helicopter reached its destination in less than two hours.
"You haven't eaten yet, have you? This is a hamburger made by Americans. Have a bite on the helicopter. We're going somewhere."
Xia Yu handed out the foil-wrapped hamburgers to the group, then told them to get on the Super Hornet and get ready for takeoff.
Today is indeed a bit rushed, but time is money, and they must make the most of every second before it gets dark.
After taking off, the helicopter flew in the northwest direction that the mixed scavenger squad had headed in the morning.
The information Green Shell obtained was both true and false.
There are indeed about 10 armed militants who have appeared in the town 80 kilometers away in the past few days.
They are not Adnan or Essais of the Greater Sahara; they are genuine Nasser al-Qaeda members.
In the wilderness, the enemy operates in small groups, making it difficult to track their movements, even with high-altitude reconnaissance drones.
So Xia Yu changed his approach and started looking for suspicious traces in the border towns where they had been.
If a car can travel a certain distance overnight, the other party is definitely hiding within a radius of 100 kilometers.
Searching all of the hundreds of villages, large and small, is unrealistic and could easily alert the suspects, but small towns are a good starting point.
If it were a group of less than a hundred people, it would be difficult to find them if they were hiding, but the Nasser al-Qaeda faction has seven or eight hundred people.
The cost of feeding people and horses is not a small amount, and in addition, there's that traitor from the Ace faction who once said that Al-Qaeda obtains its operating funds through smuggling.
That town looks well-located on the map, why couldn't it be a node on a smuggling route?
Or it could simply be a bridgehead. Others like Xia Yu might suspect that an old fox like Belmukhtar is more than 80% likely to play dirty tricks.
To be a successful military contractor, you don't necessarily need to be a detective like Sherlock Holmes, but Sherlock Holmes says you must be able to understand human nature.
Xia Yu had done thorough preparation. He knew about Lao Bei's experiences and personality changes over the years, so he could naturally deduce his behavior.
If it were an American, they might have some guesses based on the starlight, but the Americans had no clue whatsoever. Without any extremist organization claiming responsibility for the attack, they didn't even know who the attacker was.
Perhaps it's the Great Sahara.
This was exactly the development that Bermukhtar hoped to see, but unfortunately, he met his nemesis this time: the Nasser independence movement.
Xia Yu wiped out the Ace faction, so only the Foundation faction is left.
An organization should be well-organized and serve Pearl together.
For safety reasons, Xia Yu brought along the entire number 2 group and the instructor group.
Once they find the place, Andrei will bring the group of people with the number 1 to meet up with them.
If all goes well, we can take action tonight.
You absolutely cannot be this efficient if you don't know who your opponent is.
The concentrated fire defense was also a coincidence, but opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and Xia Yu's foresight is now paying off.
"Splash splash"
They landed 2 kilometers from the town and walked to the town.
Under the dim glow of the setting sun, residents were having dinner outside, quietly waiting for the day to end.
A squad of fully armed soldiers shattered the peace here.
They went straight to the only hotel in town and received information that their target would check out and leave before lunch.
The timing was very tight; they withdrew as soon as the other side finished their operation.
"Boss, do you sell alcohol here?"
Xia Yu suddenly asked another question.
This is an important question. The hotel also operates a small restaurant, providing food services.
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